Politicizing Islam in Central Asia : From the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian Jihads 9780197685082, 9780197685075, 9780197685068

A sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival do

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Politicizing Islam in Central Asia : From the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian Jihads
9780197685082, 9780197685075, 9780197685068

During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians--Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks--perished

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Women have traditionally played a vital part in Islam throughout Central Asia - the vast area from the Caspian Sea to Si

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The West has been accused of seeing the East in a hostile and deprecatory light, as the legacy of nineteenth-century Eur

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Ahmed Rashid, whose masterful account of Afghanistan's Taliban regime became required reading after September 11, t

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How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik

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The military played a pivotal role in the political development, state functions, foreign policy and the daily lives of

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This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which, Stalin as Revolutiona

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Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eura

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Central Asia has become the battleground for the major struggles of the 21st century: radical Islam versus secularism, a

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Liberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat i

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